Tonight on ABC their new crime drama Conviction airs with an all-new Sunday, January 1, 2017, episode and we have your Conviction recap below. On tonight’s Conviction season 1 episode 10, “Not Okay,” as per the ABC synopsis, “The team investigates the case of a woman convicted of killing a popular college basketball player whom she said raped her.”
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Hayes was struggling with the job. She had gone into it believing that she was playing some sort of trick on the world however her experience with the CIU had convinced her that she could help people and she had wanted to help Earl Slavitt. But unfortunately had failed Earl. He had been framed for embezzlement and for murder. So the state had taken the side of a dirty State’s Attorney and Earl had been wrongly convicted. And so Hayes struggled with going back to work knowing that she hadn’t been able to help Earl.
However, what forced her back into the world and onto the job had been the same fire that got her threw everything. Hayes had felt that if the system could wrongfully murder Earl then someone that had been convicted of killing her rapist should go free. So Hayes did go back to work and she told her team that whether they liked or not they were going to be working on Sophie Hausen. Sophie had been going to college with Travis Carter when one night she asked her to his place and then she couldn’t remember what happened next.
So naturally Travis had tried to claim that nothing happened yet Sophie had known better. She had remembered feeling off right before she blacked out and then waking up in pain with both bruises and blood for evidence had been enough for her to know that she had been raped. Though proving that a rape had occurred had been an uphill battle. Sophie had tried to go to the school about the rape and they had claimed that there hadn’t been enough evidence against their star athlete. And by time she had gone to the police, there hadn’t been anything she could use to prove her case.
They had gotten the school’s findings and they had written off Sophie’s claim. Yet, things changed when Travis was murdered because that’s when Sophie looked like a woman carrying a grudge and it didn’t help that she had also gotten a gun in recent weeks. So Sophie was taken into custody and the science had proven that her DNA had been on the gun, but Sophie swore that she was innocent because she claimed she had thrown the gun away after she contemplated suicide and Frankie later found evidence that she could be telling the truth.
Frankie had checked the DNA Analysis report and he had realized that certain protocols had been followed. The guys at the lab had stopped when the report said it was Sophie’s DNA, but they hadn’t double-checked their findings nor they did make sure that the DNA they did have hadn’t been corrupted. So the actual result of the test when done right had been inconclusive. Meaning that it could have been Sophie and it also could have been someone else and that had been more than enough to give Sophie a retrial. However, Hayes didn’t want a retrial.
Hayes had wanted to get Sophie out of prison and so she told her team to keep looking for any other possible suspects. But Hayes’s visit to Travis’s mother hadn’t gone well. The other woman had firmly believed that her son could have had any girl he wanted because he had been a star athlete and had even gotten an offer from the NBA. So she didn’t believe Sophie’s rape accusation and more importantly she thought Sophie had merely filed a complaint through the school because Travis had rejected her advances.
Sophie though hadn’t been the only one to come forward. There had been other girls and the CIU had quickly found out about when the former security guard at the college talked to them. Officer Bianchi had apparently been fired because he had believed the accusations and had repeatedly tried to find proof that Travis had been a rapist. Though Bianchi still believed Travis was a rapist and he had told both Sam and Max that other girls had come forward after Sophie tried to file her claim through the school.
Bianchi and even another administrator at the school had said that the other girls had also said they were raped by Travis. Yet, they hadn’t wanted to file an official report because they had seen how Sophie was treated and didn’t want the same thing to happen to them. So the CIU had wanted the names of the other accusers, but no one had wanted to offer any of the names because they knew the girls would be suspects in Travis’s murder. And so the team had to go out and do their own dirty work.
But in the end they found out about at least three other rape victims and the women’ stories all matched Sophie’s. The others had all said that Travis had asked them out, they had gotten flattered, and then a night at the frat house had ended with them waking up with no recollection of what happened except they had been in various states of undress and a few had been bleeding. So Travis had had a routine. He had gone out of his way to notice girls that he knew would be flattered by the attention and then he kept feeding them drinks at a frat party because he knew he take them upstairs when they began feeling out of it. And it seems the college had known.
The college had gone out of its way to deny Sophie’s claims and they hadn’t protected her in the aftermath. However, the other girls had alibis and there hadn’t been anyone else that they thought off that would kill Travis until Sam found out that one of the girls’ fathers had been a former gangbanger. The man’s name was Oscar Zepala and he had been a former enforcer for a gang. So Sam figured that Oscar would have lost it if he found out that his daughter had been sexually assaulted and he had gone out to meet Oscar so that he could ask questions yet he had been wrong.
Oscar hadn’t known what happened to his daughter and he had an alibi for the night in question. So the CIU had been left without suspects until Hayes’s brother had made her think about the counselor at the school. The rape councilor must have heard all of the girls’ stories and she was attached to the school so she must have also known how Travis’s crimes were covered up. Though the pieces didn’t fit until Max had found out that Elyse Salmon had been raped and that her rapist had never been caught.
So Elyse was someone that went into her field because of what happened to her and she had seen how the others had also been denied justice, but Hayes had to trap her into telling the truth before she admitted she killed Travis. Meaning she would have let Sophie stay in prison for her crimes just to escape that place herself. However, Sophie’s conviction was overturned and she eventually met with the others who met up with her to offer some support. So Sophie was out of prison and Hayes had done her own part to ensure that the school was now known for enabling rapists.
And despite how she could be, Wallace agreed to give their relationship a go and they both said they wanted to seriously try with each other.
But Tess had told Matty the truth about herself and hasn’t heard from him since.
THE END!
